Equality and diversity

The Department of Plant Sciences is proud to be a supportive environment, and is committed to ensuring all can reach their full potential, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, religious belief or disability.

Read the case studies illustrating how the Department’s activities have benefited careers.

The Department's Equality and Diversity Committee provide a focus for our efforts. We are working hard to support and recognise the achievements of both female and male staff, through adopting best practice in the workplace. The Committee has the following aims:

To achieve greater awareness of equality and diversity issues within the Department.

To take the lead role in implementing and monitoring the Athena Swan Action Plan.

To prepare future Athena Swan Award submissions, including gathering and analysis of data.

Disseminate good practice and information from the University’s Athena SWAN team.

Howard has a longstanding track record in supervising PhD students from developing countries, and as Co-Chair of the Global Food Security IRC has established major programmes funded by Newton Bhabha and GCRF to advance training opportunities for female scientists and farmers in India.

We publicise our activity via a regular item in the Departmental newsletter and a dedicated notice board near the tea room.

Members of the Department should feel free to contact us about any issues - or suggestions - on e-and-d@plantsci.cam.ac.uk, or by contacting any member of the committee individually.